A method at an electronic device with a display includes: displaying a user interface having a first region and a second region; receiving, and displaying in the first region of the user interface, a live video stream of a physical environment captured by a remote video camera; displaying, in the second region, a timeline corresponding to a timespan for a first portion of a duration during which the live video stream may have been recorded; in response to receiving a user interaction to move the timespan to a second portion of the duration, transitioning the displayed timeline to a new timeline that corresponds to the timespan for the second portion, and while transitioning, displaying, in the first region, a subset of video frames representing the first and/or second portion of the duration.
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3. The method of claim 2, wherein the alert events include alert events of one or more alert event types, the types including one or more of the group consisting of: motion events in a defined zone, motion events not in a defined zone, hazard events, sound events, thermostat events, and door events.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein an alert event indicator for an alert event of a first type of the alert event types differs from an alert event indicator for an alert event of a second type of the alert event types in at least one visual characteristic.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the differing visual characteristic is color.
11. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the alert event indicator for an alert event comprises a graphical object, the graphical object having a length parallel to the timeline, the length representing a duration of the alert event.
17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein transitioning the timeline is in response to receiving a user command comprising a swipe gesture that activates a scrolling effect on the timeline.
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